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TheEnglishStage6Prescriptions:AreasofStudy,ElectivesandTextsHigherSchoolCertificate20092012isavailableontheBoardofStudieswebsite:www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au20092012HSCPRESCRIBEDAREAOFSTUDY,ELECTIVESANDTEXTSEnglish(Standard)CourseEnglish(Advanced)CourseEnglish(ESL)CourseEnglishExtensionCourse1
MODJESKA, 
Drusilla, 
The 
Orchard, 
Picador, 
1995 
BLIXEN, 
Karen, 
Out 
of 
Africa, 
Penguin, 
2003 


AUSTER, 
Paul, 
The 
Invention 
of 
Solitude, 
Faber/Allen 
& 
Unwin, 
2006 


Area 
of 
Study: 
Belonging 


Students: 


 
explore 
the 
ways 
in 
which 
the 
concept 
of 
belonging 
is 
Poetry 


represented 
in 
and 
through 
texts 


LOWELL, 
Robert, 
Life 
Studies, 
Faber/Allen 
& 


 
consider 
at 
least 
one 
of 
the 
texts 
prescribed 
for 
study 
Unwin, 
2005, 
Grandparents, 
Commander 


and 
additional 
texts 
of 
their 
own 
choosing. 


Lowell, 
Terminal 
Days 
at 
Beverly 
Farms, 
Sailing 


from 
Rapallo, 
Memories 
of 
West 
Street 
and 
TAN, 
Amy, 
The 
Joy 
Luck 
Club, 
Vintage/Random 


Prose 
Fiction 
(pf) 
or 
Nonfiction 
(nf) 


Lepke, 
Man 
and 
Wife, 
Skunk 
Hour, 
Waking 
in 
House, 
1994 
(pf) 


the 
Blue 
LAHIRI, 
Jhumpa, 
The 
Namesake, 
HarperCollins, 


OR 
Elective 
2: 
Crime 
Writing 


2004 
or 
2007 
(pf) 


In 
this 
elective 
students 
are 
required 
to 
study 
at 
least 


DICKENS, 
Charles, 
Great 
Expectations, 
Penguin 


three 
of 
the 
prescribed 
texts, 
as 
well 
as 
other 
texts 
of 


Red 
Classics, 
2006 
(pf) 


their 
own 
choosing. 


JHABVALA, 
Ruth 
Prawer, 
Heat 
and 
Dust, 
John 


Prose 
Fiction 


Murray/Hachette, 
2003 
(pf) 


JAMES, 
P 
D, 
The 
Skull 
Beneath 
the 
Skin,

WINCH, 
Tara 
June, 
Swallow 
the 
Air, 
University 
of 


Faber/Allen 
& 
Unwin, 
2006 


Queensland 
Press, 
2006 
(pf) 


ONDAATJE, 
Michael, 
Anils 
Ghost, 
Picador, 
2001 


GAITA, 
Raimond, 
Romulus, 
My 
Father, 
Text 


Drama

(see 
www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au) 
provides 


Prose 
Fiction 


Drama

Publishing, 
1999 
or 
2007 
(nf) 


STOPPARD, 
Tom, 
The 
Real 
Inspector 
Hound, 
in 


examples 
of 
types 
of 
texts 
and 
may 
further 


ONDAATJE, 
Michael, 
In 
the 
Skin 
of 
a 
Lion, 


RUSSELL, 
Willy, 
Educating 
Rita, 
Longman/Pearson 


Drama 
(d) 
or 
Film 
(f) 
or 
Shakespeare 
(S) 


Tom 
Stoppard: 
Plays 
1, 
Faber/Allen 
& 
Unwin, 
2005 


supplement 
their 
study 
of 
this 
elective. 


Picador/Macmillan, 
1988 


Education, 
1991 


MILLER, 
Arthur, 
The 
Crucible: 
A 
Play 
in 
Four 
Acts, 
Penguin 
Modern 
Classics, 
2000 
(d) 


WINTON, 
Tim, 
Cloudstreet, 
Penguin, 
1998 


HARRISON, 
Jane, 
Rainbows 
End 
from 


Film

Elective 
1: 
The 
Global 
Village 


Cleven,Vivienne 
et 
al 
(eds), 
Contemporary 


JONES, 
Gail, 
Sixty 
Lights, 
Vintage/Random 
House, 


HITCHCOCK, 
Alfred, 
Rear 
Window, 
Universal 


Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
texts 
as 
the 
basis 


HARRISON, 
Jane, 
Rainbows 
End 
from 


Indigenous 
Plays, 
Currency 
Press, 
2007 


2005 


Pictures, 
1954 
Indigenous 
Plays, 
Currency 
Press, 
2007 
(d) 


for 
their 
further 
exploration 
of 
the 
effects 
of 
this 
elective. 


Cleven,Vivienne 
et 
al 
(eds), 
Contemporary 


BRONTE, 
Charlotte, 
Jane 
Eyre, 
Penguin 
Classics, 


Poetry 


Prose 
Fiction 


OR 
Elective 
3: 
Science 
Fiction 


2006

LUHRMANN, 
Baz, 
Strictly 
Ballroom, 
Fox, 
1992 
(f) 


SKRZYNECKI, 
Peter, 
Immigrant 
Chronicle,

KOCH, 
Christopher, 
The 
Year 
of 
Living 


In 
this 
elective 
students 
are 
required 
to 
study 
at 
least 


DE 
HEER, 
Rolf, 
Ten 
Canoes, 
2006, 
AV 


University 
of 
Queensland 
Press, 
2002, 
Immigrants

Drama 
(d) 
or 
Film 
(f) 


Dangerously, 
Vintage/Random 
House, 
1997 


three 
of 
the 
prescribed 
texts, 
as 
well 
as 
other 
texts 
of 


Channel/Madman 
(f) 


at 
Central 
Station, 
1951, 
Feliks 
Skrzynecki, 
St

IBSEN, 
Henrik, 
A 
Dolls 
House, 
Cambridge 


their 
own 
choosing. 


Drama 


Patricks 
College, 
Ancestors, 
10 
Mary 
Street,

SHAKESPEARE, 
William, 
As 
You 
Like 
It, 
New 


University 
Press, 
1995 
(d) 


ENRIGHT, 
Nick, 
A 
Man 
with 
Five 
Children, 


Prose 
Fiction 


Post 
card, 
In 
the 
Folk 
Museum 


Cambridge 
Shakespeare, 
2001; 
or 
Cambridge 
School 


WELLES, 
Orson, 
Citizen 
Kane, 
Warner 
Bros, 
1941 
(f) 


Currency 
Press, 
2003 


HERBERT, 
Frank, 
Dune, 
Hodder/Hachette, 
2006 


Shakespeare, 
2000 
(S) 


DICKINSON, 
Emily, 
Selected 
Poems 
of 
Emily 


Poetry 


GIBSON, 
William, 
Neuromancer,

Film 
(f) 
or 
Multimedia 
(mm) 


Dickinson, 
(James 
Reeves 
ed) 
Heinemann 


Poetry 


Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
poets 
for 
study. 
All 


Voyager/HarperCollins, 
1996 


SITCH, 
Rob, 
The 
Castle, 
Roadshow, 
1997 
(f) 


Education, 
1959, 
66 
This 
is 
my 
letter 
to 
the 
world,

SKRZYNECKI, 
Peter, 
Immigrant 
Chronicle, 


listed 
poems 
for 
that 
poet 
constitute 
the 
prescribed 
text. 


HUXLEY, 
Aldous, 
Brave 
New 
World, 
Random 


WIKIMEDIA, 
Wikipedia 
 
The 
Free 
Encyclopedia, 


67 
I 
died 
for 
beauty 
but 
was 
scarce, 
82 
I 
had 


University 
of 
Queensland 
Press, 
2002, 
Feliks 


YEATS, 
William 
Butler, 
W 
B 
Yeats: 
Poems 
selected 


House, 
2004 
or 
2008 


www.wikipedia.org 
(mm) 
Sections: 


been 
hungry 
all 
the 
years, 
83 
I 
gave 
myself 
to 


Skrzynecki, 
St 
Patricks 
College, 
Ancestors, 
10 


by 
Seamus 
Heaney, 
Faber/Allen 
& 
Unwin, 
2005, 


Welcome 
page 
http://www.wikipedia.org/ 
Main 


Film

him, 
127 
A 
narrow 
fellow 
in 
the 
grass, 
154 
A 


Mary 
Street, 
Migrant 
Hostel, 
Post 
card, 
In 
the 


An 
Irish 
Airman, 
When 
You 
Are 
Old, 
Among

portal 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 


word 
dropped 
careless 
on 
the 
page, 
161 
What 


KUBRICK, 
Stanley, 
2001: 
A 
Space 
Odyssey, 
Warner 


Folk 
Museum 


School 
Children, 
The 
Wild 
Swans 
at 
Coole, 
Leda

Community 
portal 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki 


mystery 
pervades 
a 
well!, 
181 
Saddest 
noise, 
the 


Bros, 
1968 


DICKINSON, 
Emily, 
Selected 
Poems 
of 
Emily 


and 
the 
Swan, 
The 
Second 
Coming, 
Easter 
1916 


/Wikipedia:Community_Portal 
Information 


sweetest 
noise 


Dickinson 
(James 
Reeves 
ed), 
Heinemann 


Module 
B: 
Texts 
and 
Ways 
of 
Thinking 


HARWOOD, 
Gwen, 
Selected 
Poems, 
Penguin, 
2001, 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia 


Education, 
1959, 
66 
This 
is 
my 
letter 
to 
the 
world, 


Nonfiction 


Father 
and 
Child 
(Parts 
I 
& 
II), 
The 
Violets, 
At

Wikimedia 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikime 


Elective 
1: 
After 
the 
Bomb 


67 
I 
died 
for 
beauty 
but 
was 
scarce, 
82 
I 
had 


PUNG, 
Alice, 
Unpolished 
Gem, 
Black 
Inc, 
2006 


Mornington, 
A 
Valediction, 
Triste 
Triste, 
The

dia 
Wiki 
community 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi 


In 
this 
elective 
students 
are 
required 
to 
study 
at 
least 


been 
hungry 
all 
the 
years, 
83 
I 
gave 
myself 
to 


Sharpness 
of 
Death, 
Mother 
Who 
Gave 
Me 
Life 


Film 
(f) 
or 
Multimedia 
(mm) 


ki/Wiki 
How 
to 
edit 
a 
page 
http://en.wikipedia. 


three 
of 
the 
prescribed 
texts, 
as 
well 
as 
other 
texts 
of 


him, 
127 
A 
narrow 
fellow 
in 
the 
grass, 
154 
A 


SLESSOR, 
Kenneth, 
Selected 
Poems, 
Angus 
& 


NOYCE, 
Phillip, 
Rabbit-Proof 
Fence, 
Magna 
Pacific, 


org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page 


their 
own 
choosing. 


word 
dropped 
careless 
on 
the 
page, 
161 
What 


Robertson/HarperCollins, 
1994, 
Out 
of 
Time, 


2002 
(f) 


Help 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents

mystery 
pervades 
a 
well!, 
181 
Saddest 
noise, 
the 


Prose 
Fiction 


Five 
Bells, 
Sleep, 
Five 
Visions 
of 
Captain 
Cook, 


DALDRY, 
Stephen, 
Billy 
Elliot, 
Universal 
Studios, 


Final 
details 
of 
the 
site 
sections 
are 
published 
on 


sweetest 
noise 


HELLER, 
Joseph, 
Catch-22, 
Vintage/Random 
House, 


Sensuality, 
Elegy 
In 
A 
Botanical 
Garden, 
Beach 


2000 
(f) 


the 
Boards 
website 
in 
August 
in 
the 
year 
before 
the 


HERRICK, 
Steven, 
The 
Simple 
Gift, 
University 
of 


2004

Burial

commencement 
of 
the 
HSC 
course. 


MULTICULTURAL 
PROGRAMS 
UNIT, 
NSW 
Dept 
of 


Queensland 
Press, 
2000 


LE 
CARRE, 
John, 
The 
Spy 
Who 
Came 
in 
From 
the 


ELECTIVESANDTEXTSFORTHEENGLISH(STANDARD)COURSE
Nonfiction 


Education 
and 
Training, 
Making 
Multicultural 


OR 
Elective 
2: 
Into 
the 
World 


Cold, 
Sceptre/Hachette, 
2006 


Australia, 
www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au 
(mm) 


ORWELL, 
George, 
George 
Orwell: 
Essays, 
Penguin, 


Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
texts 
as 
the 
basis 


Drama

2000, 
Why 
I 
Write, 
Notes 
on 
Nationalism, 
Good 


Sections: 


for 
their 
further 
exploration 
of 
this 
elective. 


Bad 
Books, 
The 
Sporting 
Spirit, 
Politics 
and 
the 


BECKETT, 
Samuel, 
Waiting 
for 
Godot, 
Faber/Allen 


History 
www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/histo 


Prose 
Fiction 


Module 
A: 
Experience 
Through 


English 
Language, 
Writers 
and 
Leviathan 


& 
Unwin, 
2006 


ry/index.php 
Activities 
www.multiculturalaustr 


BURKE, 
J 
C, 
The 
Story 
of 
Tom 
Brennan, 
Random 


Language 


Speeches: 
available 
on 
www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au 


alia.edu.au/activities/index.php 
Library 
www.m 


Poetry 


House, 
2005 


ulticulturalaustralia.edu.au/library/index.php 


Margaret 
Atwood 
 
Spotty-Handed 
Villainesses,

Elective 
1: 
Distinctive 
Voices 


PLATH, 
Sylvia, 
Ariel, 
Faber/Allen 
& 
Unwin, 
2005, 


Drama 


e-Learning 
www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/le 


1994 


Daddy, 
Lady 
Lazarus, 
The 
Applicant,

Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
texts 
as 
the 
basis 


RUSSELL, 
Willy, 
Educating 
Rita, 
Longman/Pearson 


arning/index.php 
Hotwords 
www.multicultural 


Paul 
Keating 
 
Funeral 
Service 
of 
the 
Unknown 


Morning 
Song, 
Words, 
Fever 
103, 
Arrival 
of 


for 
their 
further 
exploration 
of 
distinctive 
voices. 


Education, 
1991 


australia.edu.au/hotwords/index.php 


Australian 
Soldier, 
1993 


the 
Bee 
Box 


Prose 
Fiction 


Poetry 


Final 
details 
of 
the 
site 
sections 
are 
published 
on 


Noel 
Pearson 
 
An 
Australian 
History 
for 
Us 
All, 


Nonfiction

DAY, 
Marele, 
The 
Life 
and 
Crimes 
of 
Harry 


the 
Boards 
website 
in 
August 
in 
the 
year 
before 
the 


BLAKE, 
William, 
Songs 
of 
Innocence 
and 


1996

Lavender, 
Allen 
& 
Unwin, 
1998 


HERSEY, 
John, 
Hiroshima, 
Penguin, 
2002 


commencement 
of 
the 
HSC 
course. 


Experience 
in 
Selected 
Poems: 
Blake, 
Penguin 


Aung 
San 
Suu 
Kyi 
 
Keynote 
Address 
at 
the 
Beijing 


Drama 


OR 
Elective 
2: 
Romanticism 


Classics, 
2006, 
From 
Songs 
of 
Innocence: 
The 


World 
Conference 
on 
Women, 
1995 


SHAW, 
George 
Bernard, 
Pygmalion, 
Penguin, 
2003 


ELECTIVES 
AND 
TEXTS 
FOR 
THE 


Ecchoing 
Green, 
The 
Lamb, 
The 
Chimney 


In 
this 
elective 
students 
are 
required 
to 
study 
at 
least 


Faith 
Bandler 
Faith, 
Hope 
and 
Reconciliation, 


Sweeper. 
From 
Songs 
of 
Experience: 
The 
Chimney 


ENGLISH 
(ESL) 
COURSE 


three 
of 
the 
prescribed 
texts, 
as 
well 
as 
other 
texts 
of 


Poetry 


1999 


Sweeper, 
The 
Sick 
Rose, 
The 
Tyger, 
London 


their 
own 
choosing. 


BURNS, 
Joanne, 
On 
a 
Clear 
Day, 
ETT 
Imprints, 


William 
Deane 
 
It 
is 
Still 
Winter 
at 
Home, 
1999 


Module 
A: 
Experience 
Through 


WATSON, 
Ken 
(ed), 
At 
the 
Round 
Earths 
Imagined 


1997 
(available 
through 
Dennis 
Jones 
and 


Anwar 
Sadat 
 
Speech 
to 
the 
Israeli 
Knesset, 
1977 


Prose 
Fiction 


Language

Corners, 
Phoenix 
Education, 
2005, 
Sujata 
Bhatt, 


Associates, 
www.dennisjones.com.au) 
on 
a 
clear 


AUSTEN, 
Jane, 
Northanger 
Abbey, 
Penguin 
Red 


Module 
C: 
Representation 
and 
Text 


The 
One 
Who 
Goes 
Away; 
Carol 
Ann 
Duffy, 
Head 


day, 
public 
places, 
echo, 
australia, 
kindling 


Elective 
1: 
Australian 
Voices 


Classics, 
2003 


of 
English; 
Nyoongah 
Mudrooroo, 
The 
Ultimate 


Elective 
1: 
Conflicting 
Perspectives 


PATERSON, 
A 
B, 
The 
Penguin 
Banjo 
Paterson 


Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
texts 
as 
the 
basis 


BYATT, 
A 
S, 
Possession, 
Vintage/Random 
House, 


Demonstration; 
Janos 
Pilinszky, 
The 
French 


Collected 
Verse, 
Penguin, 
1993, 
A 
Bush 


Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
texts 
as 
the 
basis 


for 
their 
study 
of 
Australian 
voices. 


1991

Prisoner; 
Miroslav 
Holub, 
Brief 
Reflection 
on 
Test-

Christening, 
Clancy 
of 
the 
Overflow, 
Mulga 


of 
their 
further 
exploration 
of 
the 
representations 
of 


BRONTE, 
Emily, 
Wuthering 
Heights, 
Penguin 
Red 


Prose 
Fiction 


Tubes; 
Tadeusz 
Rozenicz, 
The 
Survivor 


Bills 
Bicycle, 
Saltbush 
Bill, 
JP, 
In 
Defense 
of 
the 


conflicting 
perspectives. 


Classics, 
2006 


BURKE, 
J 
C, 
The 
Story 
of 
Tom 
Brennan, 
Random 


Bush, 
Old 
Pardon, 
the 
Son 
of 
Reprieve 


Nonfiction 
(nf) 
or 
Film 
(f) 


Shakespearean 
Drama 


House, 
2005 


Poetry 


PUNG, 
Alice, 
Unpolished 
Gem, 
Black 
Inc, 
2006 
(nf) 


Nonfiction 


SHAKESPEARE, 
William, 
Julius 
Caesar, 
Cambridge 


COLERIDGE, 
Samuel 
Taylor, 
Samuel 
Taylor 


Drama

DALDRY, 
Stephen, 
Billy 
Elliot, 
Universal 
Studios, 


Speeches: 
available 
on 
www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au 


University 
Press, 
New 
Cambridge 
Shakespeare, 
2004; 


Coleridge: 
The 
Complete 
Poems, 
Penguin 
Classics, 


THOMSON, 
Katherine, 
Diving 
for 
Pearls, 
Currency 


2000 
(f) 


Martin 
Luther 
King 
 
I 
Have 
a 
Dream, 
1963 


or 
Cambridge 
School 
Shakespeare, 
1992 
or 
2008 


1997, 
Rime 
of 
the 
Ancient 
Mariner, 
Kubla

Press, 
1993 


Severn 
Cullis-Suzuki 
 
Address 
to 
the 
Plenary 


Prose 
Fiction 


ELECTIVES 
AND 
TEXTS 
FOR 
THE 


Khan, 
This 
Lime-Tree 
Bower 
My 
Prison, 
Frost 
at 


Poetry 


Session 
at 
the 
Earth 
Summit 
Rio 
Centro, 
Brazil, 


GUTERSON, 
David, 
Snow 
Falling 
on 
Cedars,

ENGLISH 
(ADVANCED) 
COURSE 


Midnight 


BURNS, 
Joanne, 
On 
a 
Clear 
Day, 
ETT 
Imprints, 


1992 


Bloomsbury/Allen 
& 
Unwin, 
1995 
or 
2007 


KEATS, 
John, 
Complete 
Poems, 
Penguin 
Classics, 


1997 
(available 
through 
Dennis 
Jones 
and 


John 
F 
Kennedy 
 
Inaugural 
Address, 
1961 


Module 
A: 
Comparative 
Study 
of 
Texts 


Drama 
(d) 
or 
Film 
(f) 


1977, 
La 
Belle 
Dame 
sans 
Merci, 
To 
Autumn,

Associates, 
www.dennisjones.com.au) 
on 
a 
clear 


Jessie 
Street 
 
Is 
It 
To 
Be 
Back 
to 
the 
Kitchen?, 
1944 


and 
Context 


Bright 
Star, 
To 
Lord 
Byron, 
Ode 
to 
a 


WHELAN, 
Peter, 
The 
Herbal 
Bed, 
Josef 


day, 
public 
places, 
echo, 
hegemonies 


Earl 
Spencer 
 
Eulogy 
for 
Princess 
Diana, 
1997 


Nightingale, 
Fancy, 
On 
the 
Sea, 
Ode 
on 
a 


Weinberger/Hal 
Leonard 
Australia, 
1996 
(d) 


Elective 
1: 
Exploring 
Connections 


KOMNINOS, 
Komninos 
by 
the 
Kupful, 
University 


Indira 
Gandhi 
 
True 
Liberation 
of 
Women, 
1980 


Grecian 
Urn 


LEVINSON, 
Barry, 
Wag 
the 
Dog, 
Roadshow, 
1997 
(f) 


Students 
choose 
a 
pair 
of 
texts 
from 
the 
following 
list. 


of 
Queensland 
Press, 
1995, 
back 
to 
melbourne,

OR 
Elective 
2: 
Distinctively 
Visual 


Poetry 


OR 
Elective 
3: 
Navigating 
the 
Global 


hillston 
welcome, 
cobar, 
july 
1993, 
eat, 
noura

Shakespearean 
Drama 
and 
Film 


Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
texts 
as 
the 
basis 


from 
narooma, 
thomastown 
talk 


HUGHES, 
Ted, 
Birthday 
Letters, 
Faber/Allen 
& 


In 
this 
elective 
students 
are 
required 
to 
study 
at 
least 


SHAKESPEARE, 
William, 
King 
Richard 
III, 
New 


for 
their 
further 
exploration 
of 
the 
distinctively 
visual. 


Unwin, 
2005, 
Fulbright 
Scholars, 
The 
Shot, 
The 


three 
of 
the 
prescribed 
texts, 
as 
well 
as 
other 
texts 
of 


Cambridge 
Shakespeare, 
Cambridge 
University 


Nonfiction 


Prose 
Fiction 


Minotaur, 
Sam, 
Your 
Paris, 
Red 


their 
own 
choosing. 


Press, 
1999; 
or 
Cambridge 
School 
Shakespeare, 
2006 


BIRD, 
Carmel 
(ed)/Human 
Rights 
Commission, 
The

LAWSON, 
Henry, 
The 
Penguin 
Henry 
Lawson 


AND 


Nonfiction 


Stolen 
Children 
 
Their 
Stories, 
Random 
House, 


Prose 
Fiction 


Short 
Stories, 
Penguin, 
1986, 
The 
Drovers 
Wife, 


PACINO, 
Al, 
Looking 
for 
Richard, 
Fox, 
1996 
(order 


1998

ROBERTSON, 
Geoffrey, 
The 
Justice 
Game, 


PROULX, 
Annie, 
The 
Shipping 
News, 
Fourth 


In 
a 
Dry 
Season, 
The 
Loaded 
Dog, 
Joe 
Wilsons 


through 
Bellbird 
Books, 
ph 
8905 
8690) 


Vintage/Random 
House, 
1998, 
The 
Trials 
of 
Oz, 


Estate/HarperCollins, 
1994 


Film

Courtship 


Michael 
X 
on 
Death 
Row, 
The 
Romans 
in 


Prose 
Fiction 
and 
Poetry 


THEROUX, 
Paul, 
The 
Mosquito 
Coast, 
Penguin, 


SITCH, 
Rob, 
The 
Castle, 
Roadshow, 
1997 


GOLDSWORTHY, 
Peter, 
Maestro, 
HarperCollins, 
2004 


Britain, 
The 
Prisoner 
of 
Venda, 
Show 
Trials,

WHITE, 
Patrick, 
The 
Aunts 
Story, 
Vintage/Random 


1982

OR 
Elective 
2: 
Australian 
Visions 


Drama 


Diana 
in 
the 
Dock: 
Does 
Privacy 
Matter?,

House, 
1994 
or 
2008 
AND 


MACLEOD, 
Alistair, 
Island, 
Vintage/Random 


Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
texts 
as 
the 
basis 


MISTO, 
John, 
The 
Shoe-Horn 
Sonata, 
Currency 


Afterword: 
The 
Justice 
Game 


DOBSON, 
Rosemary, 
Selected 
Poems, 
Board 
of 


House, 
2002, 
The 
Boat, 
In 
the 
Fall, 
Second

for 
their 
study 
of 
Australian 
visions. 


Press, 
1996 


Studies 
website 
www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au, 


OR 
Elective 
2: 
History 
and 
Memory 


Spring, 
The 
Lost 
Salt 
Gift 
of 
Blood, 
Island, 
To 


Prose 
Fiction 


Poetry 


Young 
Girl 
at 
a 
Window, 
Chance 
Met, 


Everything 
There 
is 
a 
Season, 
Winter 
Dog, 
As

Students 
choose 
one 
of 
the 
following 
texts 
as 
the 
basis 


GOLDSWORTHY, 
Peter, 
Maestro, 
HarperCollins, 


Landscape 
in 
Italy, 
Azay-Le 
Rideau, 
The 
Rape 


STEWART, 
Douglas, 
Selected 
Poems, 
Board 
of 


Birds 
Bring 
Forth 
the 
Sun, 
Vision, 
The 
Road 
to 


of 
their 
further 
exploration 
of 
the 
representations 
of 


2004

of 
Europa, 
Romantic, 
Primitive 
Painters 


Studies 
website, 
www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au, 


Rankins 
Point, 
The 
Closing 
Down 
of 
Summer,

history, 
personal 
experience 
and 
memory. 


Lady 
Feeding 
the 
Cats, 
Wombat, 
The 
Snow-

Drama 


The 
Tuning 
of 
Perfection 


Prose 
Fiction 
and 
Nonfiction 


Prose 
Fiction 


Gum, 
Nesting 
Time, 
The 
Moths, 
The 
Fireflies, 


MISTO, 
John, 
The 
Shoe-Horn 
Sonata, 
Currency 


AUSTEN, 
Jane, 
Pride 
and 
Prejudice, 
Penguin 
Red 


Poetry 


KINGSTON, 
Maxine 
Hong, 
The 
Woman 
Warrior: 


Waterlily, 
Cave 
Painting 


Classics, 
2006 
AND 


Press, 
1996 


Memoirs 
of 
a 
Girlhood 
Among 
Ghosts, 
Picador, 


HEANEY, 
Seamus, 
Opened 
Ground: 
Poems 


Film 
(f) 
or 
Media 
(m) 


WELDON, 
Fay, 
Letters 
to 
Alice 
on 
First 
Reading 


1989 


Poetry 


19661996, 
Faber/Allen 
& 
Unwin, 
2005, 
Digging, 


TYKWER, 
Tom, 
Run 
Lola 
Run, 
Sony, 
1999 
(f) 


Jane 
Austen, 
Sceptre/Hachette, 
2008 


Personal 
Helicon, 
Funeral 
Rites, 
Punishment,

CAREY, 
Peter, 
The 
True 
History 
of 
the 
Kelly 
Gang, 


STEWART, 
Douglas, 
Selected 
Poems, 
Board 
of 


COX, 
Deb, 
Seachange 
 
Series 
2, 
ABC, 
2004, 


Poetry 
and 
Drama 


Vintage/Random 
House, 
2005 


Triptych, 
Casualty, 
The 
Strand 
at 
Lough 
Beg 


Studies 
website 
www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au, 


Playing 
With 
Fire, 
Not 
Such 
Great 
Expectations, 


Lady 
Feeding 
the 
Cats, 
Wombat, 
The 
Snow-

DONNE, 
John, 
Selected 
Poetry, 
Penguin 
Poetry 


Film 


Film

Manna 
From 
Heaven, 
Law 
and 
Order 
(m) 


Library, 
1986, 
Death 
be 
not 
proud, 
This 
is 
my 


Gum, 
Nesting 
Time, 
The 
Moths, 
The 
Fireflies,

FREARS, 
Stephen, 
The 
Queen, 
Icon, 
2006 


COPPOLA, 
Sofia, 
Lost 
in 
Translation, 
Universal 


playes 
last 
scene, 
At 
the 
round 
earths 
imagind 


Waterlily, 
Cave 
Painting, 
The 
Tailor 


Module 
B: 
Close 
Study 
of 
Text 


Studios, 
2003 


Poetry 


corners, 
blow, 
If 
poisonous 
minerals, 
Hymne 
to 


Fishermen 


Students 
choose 
one 
text 
from 
one 
of 
the 
listed 
types 
of 


LEVERTOV, 
Denise, 
Selected 
Poems, 
see 


Module 
C: 
Language 
and 
Values 


God 
my 
God, 
in 
my 
sicknesse, 
A 
Valediction: 


Film 
(f) 
or 
Media 
(m) 


text. 


www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au, 
Ways 
of 


forbidding 
mourning, 
The 
Apparition, 
The 


Elective 
1: 
Textual 
Dynamics 


LUHRMANN, 
Baz, 
Strictly 
Ballroom, 
Fox, 
1992 
(f) 


Prose 
Fiction 


Conquest, 
Dont 
You 
Hear 
That 
Whistle 
Blowin 


Relique, 
The 
Sunne 
Rising 
AND 


In 
this 
elective 
students 
are 
required 
to 
study 
at 
least 


COX, 
Deb, 
Seachange 
 
Series 
2, 
ABC, 
2004 
(m), 


HADDON, 
Mark, 
The 
Curious 
Incident 
of 
the 
Dog 


, 
In 
Thai 
Binh 
(Peace) 
Province, 
A 
Time 
Past,

EDSON, 
Margaret, 
W;t, 
Nick 
Hern/Currency 
Press, 


three 
of 
the 
prescribed 
texts 
as 
well 
as 
other 
texts 
of 


Playing 
With 
Fire, 
Not 
Such 
Great 
Expectations,

in 
the 
Night-time, 
Red 
Fox/Random 
House, 
2004 


Libation, 
A 
Letter 
to 
Marek 
About 
a 


2000 


their 
own 
choosing. 


Manna 
From 
Heaven, 
Law 
and 
Order 


Photograph, 
The 
Pilots 


YOLEN, 
Jane, 
Briar 
Rose, 
Tor 
Books, 
2002 


OR 
Elective 
2: 
Texts 
in 
Time 


Prose 
Fiction 


MALOUF, 
David, 
Fly 
Away 
Peter, 
Random 
House, 


Module 
B: 
Texts 
and 
Society 


Nonfiction 
(nf) 
or 
Multimedia 
(mm) 


Students 
choose 
a 
pair 
of 
texts 
from 
the 
following 
list. 


1999 


FOWLES, 
John, 
The 
French 
Lieutenants 
Woman,

BAKER, 
Mark 
Raphael, 
The 
Fiftieth 
Gate, 


Elective 
1: 
Living 
and 
Working 


Prose 
Fiction 
and 
Film 


Vintage/Random 
House, 
2005 


HarperCollins, 
1997 
(nf) 


Drama 


in 
the 
Community 


SHELLEY, 
Mary, 
Frankenstein, 
Penguin 
Red 


CALVINO, 
Italo, 
If 
on 
a 
winters 
night 
a 
traveller,

SMITHSONIAN 
NATIONAL 
MUSEUM 
OF 


NOWRA, 
Louis, 
Cos, 
Currency 
Press, 
1994 


Students 
are 
to 
supplement 
this 
study 
with 
texts 
of 


Classics, 
2006 
AND 


Vintage/Random 
House, 
2002 


AMERICAN 
HISTORY 
September 
11 
website 


SHAKESPEARE, 
William, 
The 
Merchant 
of 
Venice, 


their 
own 
choosing 
related 
to 
the 
elective. 
The 


SCOTT, 
Ridley, 
Blade 
Runner 
(Directors 
Cut), 


DESSAIX, 
Robert, 
Night 
Letters, 
Picador, 
1997 


http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/ 
(mm) 


New 
Cambridge 
Shakespeare, 
2003; 
or 
Cambridge 


support 
document, 
Workplace 
and 
Community 
Texts 


Warner 
Bros, 
1982 
or 
Final 
Cut, 
2007 


School 
Shakespeare, 
2006 


Final 
details 
of 
the 
site 
sections 
are 
published 
on 


Film

(see 
www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au), 
provides 


Prose 
Fiction 
and 
Poetry 


the 
Boards 
website 
in 
August 
in 
the 
year 
before 
the 


POTTER, 
Sally, 
Orlando, 
Shock, 
1992 
(No 
subtitles) 


Poetry 


examples 
of 
types 
of 
texts 
and 
may 
further 


FITZGERALD, 
F 
Scott, 
The 
Great 
Gatsby, 
Penguin 


commencement 
of 
the 
HSC 
course. 


OWEN, 
Wilfred, 
War 
Poems 
and 
Others, 
Random 


supplement 
students 
study 
of 
this 
elective. 


OR 
Elective 
2: 
Language 
and 
Gender 


Red 
Classics, 
2006 
AND

House, 
1994, 
The 
Parable 
of 
the 
Old 
Man 
and 
the 


LANGUAGE 
STUDY 
WITHIN 
AN 
AREA 
OF 
STUDY 
AND 


In 
this 
elective 
students 
are 
required 
to 
study 
at 
least 


OR 
Elective 
2: 
Academic 
English 


BROWNING, 
Elizabeth 
Barrett, 
Aurora 
Leigh 
and 


Young, 
Anthem 
for 
Doomed 
Youth, 
Dulce 
Et 


three 
of 
the 
prescribed 
texts 
as 
well 
as 
other 
texts 
of 


TEXTS 
FOR 
THE 
ENGLISH 
(ESL) 
COURSE 


Students 
are 
to 
supplement 
this 
study 
with 
texts 
of 


Other 
Poems, 
Penguin 
Classics, 
1995, 
Sonnets 
I,

Decorum 
Est 
Pro 
Patria 
Mori, 
Futility, 


their 
own 
choosing. 


their 
own 
choosing 
related 
to 
the 
elective. 
The 


XIII, 
XIV, 
XXI, 
XXII, 
XXVIII, 
XXXII, 
XLIII

Disabled, 
Mental 
Cases 


Area 
of 
Study: 
Belonging 


support 
document, 
Academic 
English 
(see 


Prose 
Fiction 


Drama 
and 
Nonfiction 


WRIGHT, 
Judith, 
Collected 
Poems 
19421985, 


Students: 


www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au), 
provides 


WOOLF, 
Virginia, 
Orlando, 
Penguin 
Classics, 
2008 


Angus 
& 
Robertson, 
1994, 
South 
of 
My 
Days, 


ALBEE, 
Edward, 
Whos 
Afraid 
of 
Virginia 
Woolf, 


 
choose 
two 
prescribed 
texts 
from 
the 
following 
list. 
examples 
of 
types 
of 
texts 
and 
may 
further 


Train 
Journey, 
Flame 
Tree 
in 
a 
Quarry, 
For 


Vintage/Random 
House, 
2001 
AND 


Drama

Each 
of 
these 
prescribed 
texts 
must 
be 
a 
different 


supplement 
students 
study 
of 
this 
elective. 


Precision, 
Request 
to 
a 
Year, 
Platypus 


WOOLF, 
Virginia, 
A 
Room 
of 
Ones 
Own, 
Penguin 


SHAKESPEARE, 
William, 
Twelfth 
Night, 
New 


type 
of 
text 


Classics, 
2005 


Cambridge 
Shakespeare, 
Cambridge 
University 


Nonfiction 
(nf) 
or 
Film 
(f) 


ELECTIVES 
AND 
TEXTS 
FOR 
THE 


 
explore 
additional 
texts 
of 
their 
own 
choosing 
from 
a 
Press, 
2004; 
or 
Cambridge 
School 
Shakespeare, 
2006 


KRAKAUER, 
Jon, 
Into 
The 
Wild, 
Pan 
Macmillan, 


Module 
B: 
Critical 
Study 
of 
Texts 


variety 
of 
sources, 
in 
a 
range 
of 
genres 
and 
media. 


ENGLISH 
EXTENSION 
1 
COURSE 


1997 
or 
2007 
(nf) 


Poetry 


Students 
choose 
one 
text 
from 
one 
of 
the 
listed 
types 
of 


Prose 
Fiction 


WEIR, 
Peter, 
Witness, 
Paramount, 
1985 
(f) 


Module 
A: 
Genre 


TRANTER, 
John, 
The 
Floor 
of 
Heaven, 
University 
of 


text. 


BAILLIE, 
Alan, 
The 
China 
Coin, 
Puffin,1992 


Queensland 
Press, 
2007 
(order 
through 
Queensland 


Module 
C: 
Texts 
and 
Society 


Elective 
1: 
Life 
Writing 


JHABVALA, 
Ruth 
Prawer, 
Heat 
and 
Dust, 
John 


Shakespearean 
Drama 


office, 
ph 
07 
3346 
8765) 


Murray/Hachette, 
2003 


In 
this 
elective 
students 
are 
required 
to 
study 
at 
least 


Students 
are 
to 
supplement 
this 
study 
with 
texts 
of 


SHAKESPEARE, 
William, 
Hamlet, 
New 
Cambridge 


Film

WINCH, 
Tara 
June, 
Swallow 
the 
Air, 
University 
of 


three 
of 
the 
prescribed 
texts, 
as 
well 
as 
other 
texts 
of 


their 
own 
choosing 
related 
to 
the 
elective. 
The 


Shakespeare, 
Cambridge 
University 
Press, 
2003; 
or 


support 
document 
Workplace 
and 
Community 
Texts 


Cambridge 
School 
Shakespeare, 
2006 


Queensland 
Press, 
2006 


their 
own 
choosing. 


KAPUR, 
Shekhar, 
Elizabeth, 
Universal, 
1999 



